Eggp’s Reviews > Moby Dick > Status Update

Wiki: "But soon the fore part of him slowly rose from the water; for an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch, like Virginia’s Natural Bridge, and warningly waving his bannered flukes in the air, the grand god revealed himself, sounded, and went out of sight."

Wiki: "Are these thy Mother Carey’s chickens, Perth?"

Wiki: "It was the Bottle Conjuror!"

Word: "...and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God."

1. Wealth, riches, possessions. Pomp, splendour, rich array.

2. Welfare, well-being, happiness, prosperity. A source of felicity, or an object of delight.

3. The welfare of a country or community; the general good. Often with defining word, as common, general, public, universal.

Wiki: "Though Jeremy Bentham’s skeleton, which hangs for candelabra in the library of one of his executors, correctly conveys the idea of a burly-browed utilitarian old gentleman..."

Wiki: "Nor does Hogarth, in painting the same scene in his own ‘Perseus Descending,’ make out one whit better."

Wiki: "It is Guido’s picture of Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea-monster or whale."

Wiki: "...and armed with their keen mincing knives (long, crescentic, heavy implements with a handle at each end) run amuck from the bowsprit to the taffrail; and if by any devilishness of desperation possible, seize the ship."

Wiki: "...why is this phantom more terrible than all the whooping imps of the Blocksburg?"